Tuesday, December 9, 2025

 "soft ass lips"

"beer nerd"

Sunday, December 7, 2025

 dribbly drinkers

Thursday, December 4, 2025

"contains tobacco depictions"

Sunday, November 30, 2025









































I'm sorry, but these Jamie Reid pictures from 1972 - the middle one is called Work and Play, not sure about the others - are just knock-offs of Richard Hamilton, aren't they? 























Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? - 1956


At least Bryan Ferry transposed it into words-and-music













Smart move to drop the paint brush and pick up a microphone and a piano


And Linder's are more porno-grotesque and oneiric-surrealist...  with a radical feminist edge absent in the precursors... 








































Reid carried on the collage carry-on into the Pistols work 


I would venture to say there is no feminist edge here and if anything the opposite: quite traditional male-rebel "you can't me tie down" / matrimony-as-trap / woman-as-conformist-deadweight, a la Look Back in Anger / "It's a Legal Matter"

Using pop culture materials from the same cultural moment that Hamilton was operating in 



















Saturday, November 22, 2025

Monday, November 17, 2025

 Handy Carroll

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Night Mayor

Dutch lady councellor  the colour of stroopwaffel